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NCBrowncoat's avatar

What people don’t realize is there are exemptions available to vaccines in EVERY state.

We stopped vaccinating when my son and I were injured and my kids went through school with an exemption on file. My youngest had 0 record of anything in his files and his brother nothing past age 7. (Coincidentally, we no longer needed continuous “sick visits.”)

There are many state groups that helps people with this (I work with one in NC) but National Vaccine Information Center is a wealth of knowledge. https://www.nvic.org/law-policy-state

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DogsLife's avatar

There was a time, prior to 2021, when automatic vaccine exemptions were standard fare in light of certain conditions or previous adverse reaction to vaccines. I used to collect data for managed care health insurance companies, and when looking for vaccine information in a patient's chart, considering listed diagnoses was the first place we checked when vaccines were not given - ie, auto-immune disorders, infectious disease, cancer, chemotherapy/radiation, blood disorders, pregnancy, previous documentation of the disease, allergy to eggs. Over the years they added another option "Refused by patient/guardian" because there were enough refusals to make a difference in the statistics and the doctors didn't want the blame.

As medicine and it's practitioners came to be owned by corporations dependent upon money from third parties (insurance and government), care was scripted and doctors who dared veer off the path were corrected financially - and now threatened with loss of licensure. It's been a predictable decline - saw it coming in the early 90s when the push was on for electronic records. Sad.

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RB's avatar

Oh, and I bet in the last 2 years you wish you could be collecting data!

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DogsLife's avatar

I would like to be collecting data on all the post-injection injuries going unrecognized and unreported.

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RB's avatar

It is so very very sad.

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MyCovidBubble's avatar

I worry that blue states will simply pass laws making exemptions impossible or so difficult it's just not worth it and parents will just give in.

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Michelle's avatar

WA state is trying to do away with all exemptions.

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RB's avatar

In NY they removed religious exemptions and it's not easy to find a physician who is willing to write a medical exemption. We did it, but it's tough and I can imagine for someone without my background and resources available it could be very tough or next to impossible.

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